A miracle of grace : an autobiography / E. Glenn Hinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinson, E. Glenn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hinson, E. Glenn.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Baptists--United States--Biography.

Baptists.

History.

Christian college teachers.

United States.

Christian college teachers--Biography.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

448 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2012]

Summary:

This is the story of Glenn Hinson's life-A Miracle of Grace-"for I stand with mouth agape as I look back from where I am at age eighty toward where my story began." With degrees from some of the world's most noted schools (Washington University in ST Louis, Southern Seminary, Oxford University), Hinson has taught in some of America's most distinguished educational institutions (Southern Seminary, Wake Forest University, Catholic University of America, Notre Dame, Emory University), and has played a modest role in some of the most momentous ecumenical developments in Christian history since the Reformation of the sixteenth century. Who could have foreseen much less predicted any of those happenings from a glance at his early years growing up in dire poverty in the Missouri Ozarks during the Great Depression?

New Testament and Church History training put E. Glenn Hinson in an unusual position to take part in the ecumenical movement as it evolved under the influence of Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council. Through participation in the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches and in both national and international Catholic/Baptist conversations he was fortunate to take part in some of the most notable developments in modern Christian history such as the framing of the Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry document of 'the World Council of Churches. Taking the first class of students to the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1960, he developed a friendship with Thomas Merton.

The question of questions Hinson attempts to answer in this book is how this story could unfold like it did. Years of reflections have led him to think that the answer lies in the mysterious way God works in human lives and the Apostle Paul's and Augustine's understanding of Grace. Read the story and see if you agree. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Fractured Family 1

2 A Long Loneliness 16

3 Early Intimations of Grace 31

4 "Call No Man on Earth Father" 48

5 Runswell and A&P 63

6 A Sense of Presence 77

7 The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 90

8 Martha 102

9 No Super Highway 116

10 Climbing a Mountain 131

11 Oxford 143

12 A Calling within a Calling 157

13 Rome and Jerusalem 171

14 Brazil and Beyond 186

15 "That All May Be One" 202

16 Baptist/Catholic Conversations 217

17 A Gathering Gloom 228

18 Wake Forest University 243

19 Back to the Baptist Holy War 255

20 Soul Support 271

21 Rüschlikon 284

22 Oxford and the Rubicon 301

23 Richmond 316

24 Church Historian Plus 331

25 Sunset and Evening Star 342

26 No Moaning at the Bar 360.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780881463941

0881463949

OCLC:

798437806